START...YOUR...ENGINES!

The day after Christmas we were just going to try and get things done around the house. But we had a last minute change of plans. The Lambert's called us up to ask about the go-carting place in Olympia. Then, invited us (or did we invite ourselves?) to come along. At first Payton was not excited. Last time we went, the age requirement was 12. But now, they have smaller carts and family carts. When we told him that, he stopped pouting and became ridiculously excited.

The girls, Jill and I just hung out and watched and played air hockey and video games. Jill had her grand baby to watch and I didn't think that the people that worked there would be too thrilled about me leaving my kids unattended. I really wanted to race though. Maybe next time.

All the guys were very competitive and talking about how they were going to win. It was pretty funny.
Payton had a blast. He got to race twice and did great!

Um...I think this picture is of Doug...somewhere.

The racers were Doug, Ron, Jake, Raymond, Amy and Veronica. They decided to do this little series of sorts. They had a warm up race. Which Doug had the fastest time. And then a qualifying race, which Raymond had the fastest time. Then the final race. They lined them up according to their times (fastest to slowest). And they all stayed in those positions the rest of the race. Which didn't make for much excitement. No one ran into anybody and no one passed anybody. Raymond ended up winning and even got a little trophy. And then we got to listen to how the race went and why this person or that person didn't' win. Boys!